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Blog Wars: Gawker vs. Edelman

Blog Suggests PR People Lie; PR Chief Takes Umbrage

Yesterday on Gawker.com Hamilton Nolan, a former colleague of mine at PRWeek, was no doubt as happy as could be while partaking in a couple of his favorite hobbies -- dressing down the PR industry and ripping Wal-Mart a new one. And the fact that he got to poke and prod Richard Edelman, the industry's highest profile executive, about his agency's work for the retailer while doing it, no doubt made it all the more enjoyable.